1. 01 Apr, 2010 1 commit
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer · eb1e7961
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      The trace event buffer used by perf to record raw sample events
      is typed as an array of char and may then not be aligned to 8
      by alloc_percpu().
      
      But we need it to be aligned to 8 in sparc64 because we cast
      this buffer into a random structure type built by the TRACE_EVENT()
      macro to store the traces. So if a random 64 bits field is accessed
      inside, it may be not under an expected good alignment.
      
      Use an array of long instead to force the appropriate alignment, and
      perform a compile time check to ensure the size in byte of the buffer
      is a multiple of sizeof(long) so that its actual size doesn't get
      shrinked under us.
      
      This fixes unaligned accesses reported while using perf lock
      in sparc 64.
      Suggested-by: default avatarDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Suggested-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      eb1e7961
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